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Because I cant post on FB, I have to post here: The fact that consider a McDonalds Flurry "fast food" is causing issues in my marriage...

Posted by Walt_ Disney (aka Walt_Disney) Mar 29 '11, 19:01

Most people on FB do not know that my wife is pregnant and so I can not post there. Before we found out she was pregnant, we decided that we were giving up fast food for Lent. My wife does want to consider a flurry as fast food but as "sustinence" and something that the baby is wanting. Shes not happy with me because I consider a Flurry as fast food and breaking the Lent sacrifice. We just had a 30 minute discussion over the interpretation of it.

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honestly, and I know I'll catch a lot of crap for this, I think "the baby wants a mcflurry" is a cop out. - mafic Mar 29, 19:51
You're out-voted 3-1. I learned on Grey's Anatomy a couple of weeks ago that she gets her vote, the baby's vote and the vagina vote. You get one vote. - Trish Mar 29, 19:45
call your priest, get special dispensation -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 29, 19:37
Strictly speaking pregnant women are exempt from fasting or abstaining from meat... - Stephen, American Mar 29, 19:28 2
- personal abstention is not required for anybody. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:40 1
  - phhhew...it's a good thing I didn't say it was! - Stephen of Ireland Mar 29, 20:25
Yeah, what loosi says. Pregnant trumps lent. -- nm - Mop Mar 29, 19:21
Flurry on the way! - Walt_ Disney Mar 29, 19:12 4
- Surprise her with a Blizzard. -- nm - Mop Mar 29, 19:27
- ... -- (link) - amoxy Mar 29, 19:23
- my work here is done! -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:13
- Congrats on the impending Minnie-Disney. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 29, 19:13
I gave up sweets for Lent, but thats fishy territory. I got by with chocolate milk & nutter butters (which I maintain are a cracker) -- nm - Guy Mar 29, 19:11 4
- This always makes me chuckle... - Stephen, American Mar 29, 19:33 3
  - So if you give up sex is that just intercourse or oral, or or or? -- nm - Bacon Mar 29, 19:34 2
    - Sorry Bill Clinton, oral sex is sex. -- nm - Stephen, American Mar 29, 19:46 1
      - What about shoving a cigar up a woman's (BLEEP)? -- nm - Bacon Mar 29, 19:48
Boobs? -- nm - Dano Mar 29, 19:08
get. her. a. Flurry. STAT! -- nm - Beaker Mar 29, 19:06
pregnants are strange in respect to food indeed -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 29, 19:06
You're going to lose this argument....do you want multiple months more of this one stewing in her mind thru whatever swings she'll have? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 29, 19:05 5
- ..... -- nm - kelly Mar 29, 19:10 4
  - *offers you a Flurry* -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 29, 19:18 3
    - you really shouldnt have eaten 2/3 of it on the drive back. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 29, 19:40 1
      - It was melting and I had 3 minutes from window to door. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 29, 19:47
    - ..... -- nm - kelly Mar 29, 19:25
That's nothing. My wife once gave up beef for Lent, and on day 38 we had an hours-long discussion over whether 100% beef hot dogs were, in fact, beef. - Roger More Mar 29, 19:04 21
- you must be joking -- nm - Guy Mar 29, 19:12 5
  - Only about the hours-long part. She was craving iron. -- nm - Roger More Mar 29, 19:19
  - says the guy who thinks Nutter Butters are crackers. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:12 3
    - well, to be fair, it was in High School and the only time I've ever participated in lent. - Guy Mar 29, 19:15 2
      - IT'S A COOKIE. IT SAYS SO ON THE BOX. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:16 1
        
        ''it's not a cookie, it's fruit and cake" -- nm - Qale Mar 29, 19:19
- my brain just exploded. - loosilu Mar 29, 19:05 14
  - I consider teasing her about these things to be my reward for having to go through Lent. - Roger More Mar 29, 19:08 13
    - why even bother partaking in the ritual if you are going to so blatantly cheat at it? -- nm - Guy Mar 29, 19:13 7
      - It wasn't deliberate cheating - more absent-mindedness, followed by after-the-thought justification. -- nm - Roger More Mar 29, 19:18 1
        
        ah, well thats fair. perhaps she can give up excuses for next lent? :) -- nm - Guy Mar 29, 19:21
      - (says the guy considering nutter butters 'crackers') -- nm - kelly Mar 29, 19:15 3
        
        there is way more wiggle room in my example than 100% beef hot dogs and a chocolate pastry -- nm - Guy Mar 29, 19:17 2
        
        ON THE BOX. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:17 1
        
        OPEN THE BOX! -- nm - Guy Mar 29, 19:20
      - nutter butters! -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:14
    - an hours long argument is not teasing. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:09 3
      - depends on the make up sex after -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 29, 19:11
      - You obviously aren't on ST enough -- nm - Roger More Mar 29, 19:11 1
        
        unfortunately, I am. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:11
    - obviously, she was incorrect. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 29, 19:09
Rule 1 of pregnancy: pregnant women get to eat what they want. -- nm - Reagen Mar 29, 19:03 7
- this. -- nm - kelly Mar 29, 19:10
- Rule 2 - You are not the Lent cops. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 29, 19:07 1
  - related: Lent cops are the #1 reason why I don't do Lent. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:08
- Yes - I think this is true of Baha'i and Muslim fasts, so why not lent? :) -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Mar 29, 19:05 3
  - I'm not even talking about religion. -- nm - Reagen Mar 29, 19:06 1
    - Er, yeah. Good point. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Mar 29, 19:27
  - also, in Catholicism (as well as Judaism, I believe), pregnant women are exempt from fasting. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:06
Oh jeez. My take, if you care: The rules don't apply when you're pregnant. - loosilu Mar 29, 19:02 3
- Its traditions like that can screw up a lot of situations, - zeitgeist Mar 29, 19:07 1
  - that one in your IM is, IMO, stupid. however, I don't believe in bad luck, so I may be a freak. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 19:09
- also: You, a nonpregnant dude, are trying to tell your wife she's being bad for having a craving? - loosilu Mar 29, 19:03
I'm with her, but the problem is that it won't stop with a Flurry. -- nm - Qale Mar 29, 19:02

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